A moon cake is a traditional dessert that the Chinese will serve during a mid-autumn festival. Here is a recipe for anyone who is interested in making a traditional moon cake.
Filling of the moon cake can be changed to anything depend on personal taste. The one I like is red bean paste.
Materials:
Pastry
Flour 160g
Golden syrup 120g
Baking soda in water 3g (1:4)
Vegetable oil 40ml
One egg yolk and three egg whites
Filling
Red bean paste 240g
Steps:
1. Put syrup, oil, and baking soda water together in a bowl
2. Put in flour and then mix well. Roll the dough into balls.
3. Wrap individually inside plastic wrap and let it stay for 2 hours. Each ball should weight about 20 g.
4. Roll the red bean paste into 40g per balls. Take one ball of dough and press it into a sheet.
5. Wrap the dough around the filling and use your thumb and your forefinger to slowly push the dough to cover the filling.
6. If you have a case you can put it inside but if you don’t then you can draw random things on it to personalize your moon cake.
7. Put the moon cake in a pan and preheat the oven to 200 degrees (Celsius). During that time spray water on the moon cakes.
8. Bake for about 8 minutes then take it out. Wait a little then brush eggs on it.
9. Change the oven to 170 degrees and bake for another 15 minutes until the outside turns yellow.
Here you are. Perfect moon cakes for dessert. Easy right?
Can or do you have a conversion to Cups, tablespoons etc? mostly though what is the baking soda water? and how is it made? Thank you! =)
Cassandra you’d have to Google your questions… Katty is no longer a YAA blogger.